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The Chicago Genealogical Society has been producing a quarterly since 1969. Now,

you can search our past issues, Volume 1 - 39! With thanks to the Newberry Library for

coordinating the digitization, the quarterlies are available through CARLI (Consortium of

Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois) Digital Collections site. Volumes 40 to

current are available in our members only section.

The Chicago Genealogist – contents per issue

vol. 52 #4 Summer 2020

Cover photo: Looking northwest from the south bank of the Chicago River about 1895

Transcription of the St. Augustine Chronicle: Spanish Flu

St. Augustine Commercial High School Abstractions of “The Call” 1942: Twice Graduating Pioneers

A Boat Ride Under Lake Michigan in 1867 and a Sketch of Ellis Chesbrough, the Originator of Chicago’s

Modern Water System, with Some of his Descendants

The Leander McCormick Family in Chicago

Listing of Map Volumes Held by Chicago & North Western Historical Society Archives

vol. 52 #3 Spring 2020

Cover photo: A key site in Chicago in 1963 where commuters to the suburbs caught their trains

George Haynes Walker and His Time in Chicago in the Early 1830’s

Company of Captain Gholson Kercheval – 1832

Company of Captain John S.C. Hogan, Service from 24 May 1832 to at least 18 June 1832

1833 Subscribers to The Chicago Democrat Newspaper

An Early Chicago Firefighter: Frank Butterfield

Railroad Right of Way Battle: Chicago 1859

vol. 52 #2 Winter 2020

Cover photo: Street view looking north on Cicero Avenue at Kinzie Street in 1907

The John and Ann Ludby Family: Chicago Pioneers - 1833-1895

WWI Chicago Based Army Infantry Company L Seeks Descendants

A Closer Look at the Cover Photograph: Cicero Avenue at Kinzie Street 1907

vol. 52 #1 Fall 2019

Cover photo: Street view looking north on State Street about 1929

From Chicago, IL to Waupun, WI: A Family Girl at Heart - Lillian (Popp) (Lundstrom) Witter

Swedish Bible Family Records: Theodore and Carolina (Eriksson/Erikson) Berggren Family

Researching 19th Century Photographs Part 1: Finding Aunt Calista Stiles on Ebay

Researching 19th Century Photographs Part 2: Finding the Real Identity - Mary Moore aka Stella Belmont

http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_nby_cgs.php?CISOROOT=/nby_cgs


Cover photo: Mrs. Florence Ella Roach’s Residence - 449 Dayton Street, Chicago, 1903

Thomas Butler Carter, the Spotted Church and the Great Chicago Fire

Mrs. Florence Ella Roach’s Residence - 449 Dayton Street, Chicago, 1903

(address changed to 2228 North Dayton Street in 1909)

Charter, By-Laws, Rules, Officers and Members of the Calumet Club Chicago – 1899-1900

Chicago & North Western Clerkship Applications: 1907 – 1908


Cover photo: Wolf Point in Chicago, June 1947

Sheriff’s Daughter Weds Confidence Man Dudley P. Warner in Chicago, New Hampshire, Ohio & Florida

Chicago and North Western Railroad Chicago Resident Stock Holders: 1900

Crane Junior College, Class of February 1928

vol. 51 #2 Winter 2018-2019

Cover photo: Looking south on Wells Street of the elevated train on June 12, 1900

James Ayer Smith: Hatter and Furrier

More Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chicagoans in Photographs

vol. 51 #1 Fall 2018

Cover photo: Intersection of Broadway and Lawrence, 1944

Norwood Park Presbyterian Church Annual Directory 1942

Chicago Railroad Related Land Sales: 1906-07

Professor and Reverend John Alfred Hultman “The Sunshine Singer”


Cover photo: New Madison Street Bridge, August 30, 1922

Honoring My Korean War MIA/KIA Cousin

CGS Pinterest Board: Chicago Military Research Recommendations

Chicago’s First Suburb: Wabansia

The Inhabitants of Chicago, 1825-1831, Part 2 K-Z


Cover photo: Looking north along Lake Shore Drive with Soldier Field, 1930’s

Chicago Public School Board of Education Archives Yearbook Directory

Clara Tederstrom and the 1898 Freshman Class of Augustana Hospital School of Nursing, Chicago, IL

The Inhabitants of Chicago, 1825-1831, Part 1 A-J

vol. 50 #2 Winter 2017-2018

Cover photo: Chicago and North Western’s Madison Street Station, circa 1928

California Obituaries with a Chicago Connection

Sunday School Picnic Horror, July 13, 1904

Saint Patrick High School, Class of 1959, Part 2, Me-Z

A Railroad Superintendent Visits Chicago

vol. 50 #1 Fall 2017

CGS 50th Anniversary Celebration

Officers, Directors & Committee Chairperson for CGS 2008-2017

Reflections: 25 Years (reprinted)

Pioneer Cook County Landholders: 1847 Railroad Map

Saint Patrick High School, Class of 1959, Part 1, A-Mc


Cover photo: A portion of a World War I machine gun battery loading up in Chicago

The McGuire House

CGS Research Volunteers Help Return Lost WWI Purple Hearts to the Families

Volunteer Valor Research Team Report: GT Russell Jones Dyer


Cover photo: Chicago’s first railroad station, built in 1848 for the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad

German Day Laborer’s Son Becomes Wealthy Chicago Coal Merchant

Sinking of the Excursion Boat Favorite, 28 July 1927

Hyde Park High School, Class of 1946 (continued)

vol. 49 #2 Winter 2017-2016

Cover photo: Union Station in Chicago taken in September 1916

A Warning to All Quacks and Incompetent Physicians: Dr. Milton Parker of Acworth, New Hampshire;

Kanawha, Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois

Henry T. Connors Weds Bridget Mulvihill

Hyde Park High School, Classes of June 1946 and February 1947

vol. 49 #1 Fall 2016

Cover photo: Chicago Colosseum, taken about 1895

One Family’s Nineteenth Century from New York to Chicago to Oregon: Joseph M. and Artamisia Ann

(Talcott) Burdick

Saint Ignatius College Prep, Class of 1958

Martin N. Olsen: A Chicago Family Property History

Chicago & North Western Railroad Job Applications, 1907–1908


Cover photo: Chicago’s Dearborn Station, early 1880s

Chicago Deaths Reported in Harvard, Illinois, Newspapers, 1899–1904

Crane Junior College, Class of February 1929

Fire from the Sky: Chicago’s Wingfoot Express Blimp Disaster, 21 July 1919


Cover photo: Chicago jackknife bridge, about 1910

Horror at Clybourn, 1926

Gutke/Guttke Family Materials

The Eastland Disaster: A Personal Connection Discovered

Austin High School, Class of 1936 ½

vol. 48 #2 Winter 2015-2016

Cover photo: Looking east along the main branch of the Chicago River, about 1925

The Great Chicago Calamity of 1857

Genetic Genealogy Projects That You Can Try At Home

Pioneer Certificates 401–500

Good Council High School, Class of 1946

vol. 48 #1 Fall 2015

Cover photo: Chicago and North Western Railroad's Wells Street station, late 1890s

William and Amelia Alcorn: Chicago Pioneers

Railroad Employee Records Moved to the Newberry Library

Chicago Carte de Visite Album

Deaths Reported in the Chicago Tribune, 1860s. Part 7 (final)

De La Salle High School, Class of 1956


Cover photo: Jack and Marie Barrath

Grandmother Had a Ticket for the Eastland

“Missing-Text”

A Letter Home

Things Could Have Been Different: A Story about Great-Grandma Draeger and Her Trip to America

19th-Century Photo Album of Chicagoans

Deaths Reported in the Chicago Tribune, 1860s. Part 6

An Abbreviated Guide to Genealogy Resources at the Harold Washington Library Center


Cover photo: Marion Elizabeth Brennan and Family

Forensic Techniques Case Study: Calumet Baking Powder Co. Part 3 of 3: Forensic Techniques for

Individualization

The Genealogy Do-OverTM: A Year of Learning from Mistakes

Organizing, Writing, and Sharing the Life Story of Marion Elizabeth Brennan


vol. 47 #2 Winter 2014-2015

Cover photo: William Olson, Catherine Jax, Nicholas Jax

From East Prussia to Lake View: A Zimowski Arrives in Chicago

Wed in Milwaukee: List of Chicago Couples married 5 May 1894 – 30 August 1894


vol. 47 #1 Fall 2014

Cover photo: Emma Barrath

Forensic Techniques Case Study: Calumet Baking Powder Co. Part 2 of 3: Forensic Techniques for

Dating a Photo

Armour Institute of Technology, Class of 1925

Church Free School, Class of 1934

Views on Many Topics II: … Chicago Years Ago



Cover photo: Anna Nelson, Ruth Nelson, Daisy Wilson

Wilson and Nelson Penny Postal Photographs

Forensic Techniques Case Study: Calumet Baking Powder Co. Part 1 of 3: Traditional Research

Methods

Michael Felix Matysak (1910–1945), 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment



Cover photo: Lalla Knowles and Mercedes Plows

A Tragic Chicago Family and the Sinking of the Ship La Bourgogne

Chicago and Northwestern Railway Locomotive Engineers

Publishing Your Family History

Mystery Photo


vol. 46 #2 Winter 2013-2014

Cover photo – Wentworth Ave Pharmacy Charles Rimmele, about 1890

The Macke Family of Chicago

Charles Rimmele: An Early Chicago Druggist

Englewood High School The Purple & White 1928 Alumni

Old Settlers’ Roll of Honor

Mrs. Robert Kinzie Dead

Confederate Veterans Buried in Cook County, Illinois

Pioneer Certificates 301–400

vol. 46 #1 Fall 2013

Cover photo: Lillian Miloch Hayes and the Butterfly Girls of Ephpheta School

Lillian Miloch Hayes and the Ephpheta School for the Deaf

Escape from New York City: The Van Ness/Vance Family of New York and Chicago

My Chicago Firemen Cousins

Chicago Deaths Reported in Harvard, Illinois Newspapers, 1899-1904

Jefferson Township Licenses, 1886-1887, from IRAD Microfilm


Cover photo – Chicago Water Tower

William James Gaston and a Chicago Murder

Chicago Spanish American War Photographs of Chicago Soldiers

German Alien Registration - Part 3


Cover photo: Cook County Jail Inmates, 1910

A Vogt Family in Chicago

The Coroner’s Inquest on the Body of Gust Tsamtsakizh: 2 July, 1932

vol. 45 #2 Winter 2012-2013

Cover photo: Early horse-drawn fire engine

Biography: Philip J. Sullivan, c1840-1915

German Alien Registration - Part 2

Two Hyde Park Families: Johnston-Gibson and Boezel, 1881-1921

Storybook Chicago

Official Death Record – Burial Permits issued 5-6 December 1907 by Chicago Health Department

vol. 45 #1 Fall 2012

Cover photo – 45th Anniversary

Letters to the West from a Chicago Pioneer

German Alien Registration

Glimpses of 19th Century Life in Chicago

Anderson Family History in Photographs

Official Death Record – Burial Permits issued 30 November & 1 December 1907 by Chicago Health

Department


Cover photo: Cook County Sunday School Association advertisement

St. Michael Central High School – Graduating Class of June 1959

St. Michael Central High School History

St. Michael Central High School 50th Anniversary Reunion (30 May 2009)

The Mulvihill Family of Chicago

1839 Chicago Business Directory


Cover photo: May Hosmer

Czech Obituaries Part II: Lusk to Zimney

Photographed in Chicago: A Cautionary Tale

Female Sunday School Class Photographs Circa 1909 - 1911

Building a Chicago Family: The Cathey Group

vol. 44 #2 Winter 2011-2012

Cover photo: Joseph and Kate Holub

Czech Obituaries Part I: Balek to Krupicka

FGS Conference 2011 – Springfield, IL

Even Theater People Had a Family Tree: Genealogy of May Hosmer, Theater Star of Chicago

Information on St. Peter’s Church: as to confirmations listed in Vol.43 No4

vol. 44 #1 Fall 2011

Cover photo: Inez Briggs statue

The Mysterious Statue of Inez “Clarke”

Avoiding Wrong Track Research: Identifying the Wives of David H. Driver

Additional Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chicagoans in Photographs

Harrison Technical High School, Graduation Classes of January and June 1945

Weil/Wyle family of Chicago


Cover photo: Katherine Emily Heil

Illinois Staats Zeitung – Part VIII-B November 20-30, 1872

Pioneer Ancestor Certificates and Rebuilder Ancestor Certificates

Harrison Technical High School – Graduation Classes of 1944

The Fourth German United Evangelical Lutheran St. Peter’s Congregation Confirmations 1867

Tomas (Tamasaukaus) Family Tree


Cover photo: Clara King

Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part VII-A, November 1-16, 1872

David Carver, Chicago’s first Lumber Merchant

Listing of Chicago Families missed by the 1890 Census Enumerator

John J. Koester: the Ancestor of Virginia Glaeser Hasbach

vol. 43 #2 Winter 2010-2011

Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part VII-B, October 1-31, 1872;

Vital records from the “Chicago Record” and “Chicago Times Herald” 1894 and 1898-1899;

Challenges in researching my great great grandfather: Johann Christian Hagner and family

vol. 43 #1 Fall 2010

Cover photo: Dorothy Vernona Gastfield;

Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part VII-A, October 1-15, 1872;

Genealogical research solves a family mystery;

Barrett uncovers Chicago’s oldest marriage license: John G. Blain and Alice Miller;

Seeking William Gastfield/Geistfeld his origins and descendants;

Below/Buelow family materials;

Berggren family Bible


Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part VI-B, September 16-30, 1872;

Growing up in Chicago: the thirties decade as I remember it;

An original Chicago probate record comes home: Edward V. Price


Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part VI-A, September 1-16, 1872;

John Kane and Sabina (Madden) Kane;

Summer memories of visits at my grandparents;

Documentation for the CGS ancestor certificate program

vol. 42 #2 Winter 2009-2010

Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part V, August 1872;

Pioneer Ancestor Certificates #355-369 and Rebuilder Ancestor Certificates #14-20;

Van Vlissingen School in Chicago (Roseland)

vol. 42 #1 Fall 2009

Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part IV, July 1872;

Remembering the 1920s decade


Cover photo: Thomas Hatton Gravestock;

Thomas Hatton Gravestock;

Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part III, June 1872;

University of Chicago: remembering a time;

Harrison Technical High School, graduation Class of February 1941


Cover photo: Frances Elizabeth Strayer

Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part II, April-May 1872;

Chicago River cruise October 4, 2008 photographs;

Examination of title: Lot 12 in Block 5 in Corwith’s Resubdivision in Section 36, Town 39 North, Range 13

East in the “Town of Brighton” in Cook County

vol. 41 #2 Winter 2008-2009

Cover photo: Addie McKenzie;

Illinois Staats Zeitung translations: part I, pre-1872 and Jan-Mar 1872;

Of wealth and war: Samuel Lowe writes home;

Anna L. Smith, Chicago suffragette;

An old inhabitant resurrected: Abram A. Markle

vol. 41 #1 Fall 2008

Austin High School, June class of 1948;

John L. Marsh Grammar School, graduation class of February 1935;

Confirmation class of March 25, 1934, Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2619 E. 76th Street, Chicago;

Lost and found: photographs of two unknown men


Cover photo: Alma Dye;

Additional late 19th and early 20th century Chicagoans in photographs;

St. Thomas the Apostle High School Classes of 1939-1942;

Pioneer Ancestor Certificates #301-354, and Rebuilder Ancestor Certificates #1-13;

Family of James Joscelyne;

Saint Dominic High School yearbook 1956;

Wedding of Otto Daniel Meister and Agnes Uber September 24, 1885;

St. Francis de Sales High School, graduating Class of 1954


Cover photo: Austin High School circa 1947;

Austin High School, January Class of 1948;

Saint Dominic High School yearbook 1955;

Wedding photograph of Sidney Albin Carlson and Dora Meister;

William Howard Taft High School, Classes of 1947

vol. 40 #2 Winter 2007-2008

Cover photo: John C. Uber and Fredericka Drewing on their wedding day, February 22, 1864;

Baptisms in St James’ Catholic Church register of confederate soldiers interred at Camp Douglas,

Chicago;

Lewis-Champlin School, Class of June 1913;

Hyde Park High School, “Aitchpe” yearbook 1934-1935;

Using coroner’s records;

City of Chicago Ordinance 1861: prohibiting bathing in the lake

vol. 40 #1 Fall 2007

CGS at 40;

Did you know our great great uncle was a mayor of Chicago?

Renamed streets of Chicago, 1900;

Index to listing of obituaries from “Illinois Staats Zeitung” Jul-Dec 1871;

Alward’s of Woodbridge, Scipio, South Bend, Niles and Chicago;

Photograph of Class 7A-7B of Bateman School, 1939-1940;

Photograph of kindergarten class of Bateman School, 1934


Cover photo: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Resslar, 1890

19th century Chicago deaths reported in Harvard Illinois Newspapers [1889 – 1898];

Bowen High School, Graduating classes of 1936;

Catholic Directory for the churches and clergy of the City of Chicago, 1852;

Old settlers’ roll of honor compiled by Dr. Charles J. Lewis;

Mrs. Robert Kinzie dead “Chicago Daily News” September 11, 1894;

CGS Salt Lake City research trip 2007


Cover photo: unknown Danish man;

Rescuing and reuniting photographs: cabinet cards and carte de visites taken 1880s – 1900;

Chicago – Mud City, 1848 to 1855;

John Marshall High School, Class of January 1933


Death and marriage extracts from “Chicago Times” 19 June 1891 and 30 May 1895 and “Chicago Times

Herald” 8 Oct 1896;

A cousin’s legacy [Sutherland];

Margaret Sutherland’s autograph book, Hibbard Elementary School, 1926;

Anna Bates: musician and mother;

Employees at the Dunning Institution, “Chicago Tribune” 28 Aug 1895;

Roald Amundsen High School, Class of 1938;

To “B” or not to “B”, Blaski or Blaszkowski: a DNA success story

vol. 39 #1 Fall 2006

Cover photo: Catherine Margaret Joyce and Thomas Martin Sanderson on their wedding day April 1,

1917;

American tradition: wartime romances. Chapter four of the “Gathering of the Clans”;

More late 19th and early 20th century Chicagoans in photographs;

Pullman Free School of Manual Training, 1946


Cover photo: tombstone of Anton and Louise Vollmann, St Joseph’s Cemetery, Wilmette, Illinois;

Four cemeteries and a serendipity: a successful focused research trip case study;

Central YMCA Preparatory Schools, Classes of 1923 and 1924;

Journey to Hennethal;

Lincoln School, 8th Grade Class, 1947;

Obituary: Laverne B. Brehmer


Cover photo: Hirsch High School, 1937;

Hirsch High School graduates June 1937;

Hirsch High School freshmen 1937;

Carl Schurz High School, Gold Stars, 1944;

Altenheim Cemetery update;

Student government heads of Chicago Latin School and Girls’ Latin School of Chicago


Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum;

Third hundred Pioneer Ancestor applications;

Chicago Pioneer Ancestor: Ebenezer Wakeley, Jr.;

Hirsch High School graduates, February 1937;

Late 19th and early 20th century asylums in Chicago

vol. 38 #1 Fall 2005

Cover photo: Loretta Mary O’Neil and Thomas Francis Hunt on their wedding day in the early 1920s;

Founding of a new dynasty: chapter three of “The gathering of the clans”;

Chicago Latin School for Boys, Class of June 1927;

Graduating class of the Skinner School, 1900;

St. Louis Academy High School, Chicago, Graduating class of 1952


Cover photo: Allen C. Lewis;

90th anniversary of the Eastland disaster of July 25, 1915;

The Lewis [Institute] Annual (Volume three), 1905;

A source of family history information: inventory of Chicago area yearbooks, directories and histories;

Photographs of CGS research trip to Salt Lake City in 2005


Late 19th and early 20th century Chicagoans in photographs;

Going back in time : going back into Ireland;

Thompson Burials in Lot 137 at Graceland Cemetery;

Dedication of Rosehill Cemetery;

Good Counsel High School, Class of 1946;

Educational Chicago, “Chicago Tribune”, 6 Sep 1890

vol. 37 #2 Winter 2004-2005

Bates Directory of the Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable, and Produce Industry, 1934;

In search of Mary Branca;

Chicago Pioneer Ancestor, William Huckell 1847-1909

vol. 37 #1 Fall 2004

Cover photo: Margaret Mary Grace Hunt;

Americans, our common ancestors: chapter two of the “Gathering of the clans”;

Follow up to article about Austin High School Class of 1929


Cover photo: Civil War graves in Oak Woods Cemetery;

Austin High School Class of 1929;

Aaron Lodge #913;

Photographs of CGS members touring Union Ridge Cemetery, May 2003;

Photographs of CGS research trip to Salt Lake City, September 2003;

Photographs of CGS bus tour, October 2003;

Genealogical eesearch in the collection of the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago;

Illinois State Fair of 1865 in Chicago;

Memories of early 20th century;

Graceland Cemetery, then and now (Thomas Coke Thompson)


Cover photo: map of Chicago’s Plank and Rail Road Systems in 1852;

Western Plank Road Company, 1851-1852;

Dunlap’s Store, North Water Street: ledger excerpts 1839-1845;

Chicagoans of Scottish origin buried by the Illinois St. Andrew Society in sections D and E of Rosehill

Cemetery;

Memories of 1930s Chicago;

Jenner Medical College, graduates 1915

Our Lady of the Angels School, Class of 1930

vol. 36 #2 Winter 2003-2004

Cover photo: Annie McClure Hitchcock;

Cousin Annie, Chicago pioneer and philanthropist;

Index to listing of obituaries from “Illinois Staats Zeitung”, Jul – Dec 1871;

Rova family;

Late 19th and early 20th century Chicagoans in photographs;

Safe place: a reminiscence of Chicago in World War II

vol. 36 #1 Fall 2003

Cover photo: Thomas James Hunt;

Immigrant ancestors : Chapter one of “The gathering of the clans”;

Index to listing of obituaries from “Illinois Staats Zeitung”, Jan – Jun 1871;

Name change


Cover photo: Kennicott House in the Grove, before renovation;

Bohemian National Cemetery: Burials January thru April 1903;

The Grove, Glenview, Cook County, and a history of Glenview;

Letters between Sweden and Chicago

Vol. 35 #3 Spring 2003

A visit to the Family History Library and FamilySearch Center in Salt Lake City;

Photographs from our Society’s Salt Lake City Research trip in October 2002;

The international floor of the Family History Library;

Grandma Annie and the great Chicago fire;

Isaac Speer, Chicago pioneer;

Photograph of Clyde and Hattie Soltow Northrup

vol. 35 #2 Winter 2002-2003

Cover photo: Gustav & Anna Hagner on their wedding day;

Gustav Hagner meets Anna Waldschmidt;

James Charles Chrishop;

Nash Grammar School, Graduating Class, June 20, 1924;

Skinner Public School;

Ksanders in Chicago 1870-2002;

Steamer “Thomas Jefferson”;

Steam boat “Monroe”;

Index of Names for the 17th Annual May Festival Concert Cook County Sunday School Association,

Friday, May 27, 1910

vol. 35 #1 Fall 2002

Cover photo: Hubert Herman Seyl circa 1892;

Story of Peter Seyl;

Contemporary Account of the Chicago Fire of October 9, 1871;

Biographies of Cassius M. Wicker and Cyrus W. Wicker;

Childhood in the 30’s;

My playtime;

Annual Festival Concert, Cook County Sunday School Association, 1910


CGS at 35

CGS is sixteen years old (reprint)

Carl Schurz High School: Graduating Classes of 1926

19th century Chicago photographs, part 2

Dad, 89, and son, 65, get social security (John B. Adler, Sr. and Jr.)

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: Charles August Westberg

Florence Victoria Wilhelmy

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: Theodore Peter Lucas

Genealogy of Ruth Carbine Leach


Cover photo: Evangelical Lutheran Lebanon Church, Chicago

Meta Tiarks Baur

Lebanon Church history, Cragin

Cragin area of Chicago;

What’s in a name

My Swedish connections: how I found my Swedish relatives (Froberg, Lundin);

Childhood memories of Chicago’s northwest side;

Carl Schurz HIgh School: Graduating Class of 1925

Guide to 1930 census for Chicago: enumeration districts and ward boundaries

Some Newberry Library acquisitions in 2000-2001

vol. 34 #2 Winter 2001-2002

Cover photo: Frederick and Elizabeth (Bing) Metz

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestors: Frederick Metz and Elizabeth (Bing) Metz

Carrier Laederach

Suggestions on how to handle variant spellings of names for your charts and articles

Family of Paul Jankowski/Katherine Piotruszewski

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: Archibald Clybourne

Chicago ads of the 1880s

Emmel Building: a follow-up

vol. 34 #1 Fall 2001

Cover photo: Ann McDonnell

Miss Annie’s family: a tale of Chicago’s Irish (McDonnell and Walsh);

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestors: Anton and Ludmilla Marik;

Research notes on the Chicago Fire

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: John Peter Suerth

Germans to America, 1852

Salt Lake City: 2001


Cover photo: Charles Much hay and grain store

Calumet Club of Chicago;

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor:Antoine Wilmet

My Irish immigrants (O’Brien and Keleher);

Greenwood brothers in Chicago, 1835


Carl Schurz High School (history, photos, and Graduating Classes of 1948-1951);

Emmel Building: an historic landmark;

What happened to Grandma’s (Barbara Reiff Feipel) maternity dress

vol. 33 #2 Winter 2000-2001

Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists [history and names of exhibiting artists];

Biography of John Charles Koch;

A Visit to the Harold Washington Library, Chicago

Answers to Genealogy puzzle #1

vol. 33 #1 Fall 2000

Cover photo: Josef Nevyhosteny and Josef Janda

Joseph Nevyhosteny and Joanna Louisa Welsh

Family of firefighters: Belsky

Salt Lake City research trip, May 2000: photos

Second hundred pioneer ancestor applications (Cook County)

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad employee records for Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth

and Northwest Wisconsin (1870-1896) – Chicago and Chicago area born employees

Obituary for Mary Kathleen Dembinski

Genealogy [crossword] puzzle #1


Cover photo: Jno. F. Matthews

Lake View Congregational Church, Lake View, Illinois 1885;

Biography of the Broecker and Neumann families

Beaubien School history

Some history of Jean Baptiste Beaubien

Roosevelt High School, Class of 1940

Gustaf Ludwig Napoleon Laurell, 1861-1934

Illinois and the War

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: John Kistenbroker

Fuhrman and Forster Company


Cover photo: Grandpa and Grandma Loacker

Chicago Catholic cemeteries: removals to Calvary Cemetery, part 2

vol. 32 #2 Winter 1999-2000

Cover photo: Mrs. Elizabeth Miliner Burkill

Chicago Catholic cemeteries: removals to Calvary Cemetery, part 1

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: James Mathews

vol. 32 #1 Fall 1999

Cover photo: Herbert Nelson Morris;

Actor in the family (Fred Taunton/Walter Pelham);

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: Peter Laux;

Chicago Fire;

Cemetery records and obituaries;

Civil War veterans living in the Austin area of Chicago c.1930

Military affairs (“Chicago Times”, 1862): departure of the Second Board of Trade regiment;

Names being researched by the Salt Lake City group


Cover photo: Maurice Kane

Out-of-town obituaries, 1996-1997: Chicagoans who died in California and Florida;

Historical marker, Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois;

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: Thomas McEnery;

Historical markers at the Kennicott House, The Grove, Glenview, Cook County

Salt Lake City research trip photos, May 16-23, 1999;

“Our trip West” (as seen through the eyes of Mary Greenwood in 1835);

Barbara Thiele Beese 5-generation chart;

Memorials in War Memorial Park, Arlington Heights, Cook County;

Official death record, published in the “Chicago Tribune”, 26 Oct 1897: burial permits


Cover photo: Mrs. Elizabeth Lauth;

Baptisms and marriages (1900-1910) performed by the Rev Joseph Misicka;

Ordinary man remembered 100 years later (Joseph Hack);

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: Peter J. Thornum;

Allen County Public Library: the Historical Genealogy Department;

Genealogical research for Chicago families: brought down to size

vol. 31 #2 Winter 1998-99

Cover photo: George W. Lyon;

19th century Chicagoans in photographs;

Chicago’s history lost [unidentified photographs];

“Old Catholic Cemetery” records: reburials from City Cemetery to St Boniface Cemetery;

I didn’t know my great grandfather had siblings (Jonathan Phillips);

Charlestons in Chicago

vol. 31 #1 Fall 1998

Cover photo: Fredericka Shillinglaw, 1860

Wards of Chicago in 1857

List of letters for Chicago, 1834

Fredericka Shillinglaw 1856-1930

Abstracts from pension records containing affidavits of Chicagoans

Read the whole page and disregard spelling

Land records research

Cook County Blackhawk War muster rolls as of May 3, 1832 (reprint)

Cook County Blackhawk War muster rolls as of July 23, 1832 (reprint)

1812 soldiers buried in Cook County (reprint)

Volga Germans in Jefferson Park

vol. XXX #4 Summer 1998

Cover photo: Thomas Stevens, Commander of the Order of Knights Templar of Illinois;

One hundred years ago on Blackstone Avenue

Marriage records of Gethsemane United Church of Christ: 1906-1936

vol. XXX #3 Spring 1998

Cover photo: 1700 N. Francisco grocery store (Treichel family)

Index to volumes XXII-XXVIII of the “Chicago Genealogist”

vol. XXX #2 Winter 1998

Cover photo: broom-making in 1892 (Treichel family)

Corrections to Quarterly Numbering;

Revised index for a 64-year old book (Czech and Slovak Leaders in Metropolitan Chicago by Daniel D.

Droba)

vol. XXX #1 Fall 1997

Funeral records of Gethsemane United Church of Christ (L-Z);

Chicago burial permits and marriage licenses from 1898;

Civil War extracts from “Chicago Times,” August 1862

vol. XXIX #4 Summer 1997 (mislabeled Vol. XXIX #3)

Funeral records of Gethsemane United Church of Christ (A-L)

Research trip to Springfield: Illinois State Archives, Illinois State Library, and the Illinois State Historical

Library;

Illinois State Archives, and the Illinois Regional Archives Depositories (IRAD);

Illinois Regional Archives Depository: Cook County branch

Research services available from the Archives and IRAD

Renamed Chicago streets: Town of Pullman

Chicago street numbering system

Chicago street name changes, 1937

vol. XXIX #3. Spring 1997

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: John Pletzer

vol. XXIX #2 Winter 1997

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestors: Ashbel and Harriet (Dawley) Steele

State Historical Society of Wisconsin library

Renamed Chicago streets, 1914

Chicago ward boundaries, December 4, 1911

Cemeteries in Chicago and vicinity, 1914

vol. XXIX #1 Fall 1996 (mislabeled vol. XXX #1)

Cover photo: Filip and Marie (Vondracek) Mrstny

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: James K. Martin

Chicago’s north side, a melting pot

Renamed streets of Chicago, 1900

vol. XXVIII #4 Summer 1996 (mislabeled vol. XXIX #4)

1995-1996 Surname Index of Members of the Chicago Genealogical Society

vol. XXVIII #3 Spring 1996 (mislabeled vol. XXIX #3)

Chicago Ancestor File Supplement #6

vol. XXVIII #2 Winter 1996

Cover: Manhattan Office Building, Dearborn Street, Chicago

First hundred Pioneer Ancestor applications

Matriarch Mary McMahon, 95, recalls early Chicago days;

Great Chicago Fire: how it originated (from the Chicago Tribune, Friday, October 20, 1871);

Chicago and Cook County war memorials

Sources on Czech research

vol. XXVIII #1 Fall 1995

Swedish immigrant carpenter, Axel Swenson, helps to build Chicago;

Diary of Mrs. Marie D. Nemecek;

History of Czechs in Chicago : the Chrs, Vaclav Topinka family

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: William Croscomb Coburn

vol. XXVII #4 Summer 1995

Cover: the Owings’ building

History of Czechs in Chicago: founding of the Gymnastic Society Union

Chicago Literary Club history from 1924-1946

Chicago Literary Club roll of members 1925-1946

vol. XXVII #3 Spring 1995

Cover: Press Club monument, Mt. Hope Cemetery

Musician Jan Novak and his family;

At death’s door: the deadly knife again (Berner murder July 1877)

Copies of records of the Cook County Criminal Court: (Berner murder July 1877)

The Press Club of Chicago;

Remembrances of a Norwegian immigrant girl in Chicago

vol. XXVII #2 Winter 1995

Cover: first Cook County courthouse, 1835

Religious Symbols ;

They had to hide their sex, but they passed muster – Civil War soldiers;

Oldest saloon in Chicago, founded in 1836

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Archives Department;

Municipal Court of Chicago Proceedings in Feeblemindedness, 1915-1936

vol. XXVII #1 Fall 1994

Cover: typical corner store in Pilsen

David Lally, my unsuspected Civil War ancestor;

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor, Daniel Moran;

Bohemian Funeral Directors’ Association;

Recollections of the old Chicago-Czech neighborhoods and selected translations from a Chicago-Czech

neighborhood history;

Czech research in Chicago

vol. XXVI #4 Summer 1994

Cover photo: Green Tree Tavern, 1835

St. Salomea Parish 1897-1990;

St. Ludmilla’s Catholic Church Easter Sunday, 15 April 1906;

Titled Chicagoans

Some early Chicago Czechs from “The tenth anniversary of Czech Old Settlers”

vol. XXVI #3 Spring 1994

Cover photo: Union Stock Yards

1993-94 surname index of the Chicago Genealogical Society

vol. XXVI #2 Winter 1994

Cover photo: Sherman House

Story of the Chicago Fire of October 1871 as told by Grandma Hattie Dietz

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestors: Anna Eva Staat, Joseph and Anna Eva Kieserg, and Frantisek

and Mary Vilim;

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestors: Benjamin B. Lincoln

Street sign genealogy;

18th century marriage customs in the Illinois country

Chicago ancestry of the first woman Illinois Supreme Court Justice, Mrs. Mary Ann Grohwin McMorrow;

Death and marriage extracts from “Chicago Times”, 19 June 1891 and 30 May 1895;

Death and marriage extracts from the “Chicago Times-Herald”, 8 Oct 1896

vol. XXVI #1 Fall 1993

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestors: Friedrich Gruschow and Carl Gruschow

Super Chicago trivia quiz;

Chicago case of a midwife olde;

Membership Directory of Tabernacle Independent Church, Chicago, 1878-1879

vol. XXV #4 Summer 1993

Cover photo: horse drawn car in Chicago

Some early Chicago documents 1833-1835

Little Anna Olsen and the Chicago Fire

Chicago Ancestor File Supplement #5 (A-Z)

Frances A. Rush

Family photograph album: Wagner and Heiser families and friends

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: Franz Anton Buscher

vol. XXV #3 Spring 1993

Cover photo: ferris wheel at World’s Columbian Exposition

World’s Columbian Exposition

Who was Richard Brown?

Chicago/Cook County Pioneer Ancestor: Barbara Reiff Feipel

Proviso Township High School, “Provi”, 1918

Senior citizens of Chicago, 1906

vol. XXV #2 Winter 1992/1993

Cover photo: Chicago and Northwest Railway Station, 1881

Genealogical data available in Railroad Historical Society Archives: Chicago & Northwestern Historical

Society;

Record of burial permits: Town of Hyde Park, 2 Mar 1884 to 6 Jul 1886

Laws of genealogy

Fraternal lodges

Chicagoans related to the rich and/or famous

Research policy of Archdiocese of Chicago

Pieces of the past

vol. XXV #1 Fall 1992

Cover photo: Haugan and Lindgren Bankers, Chicago, 1879

History of the State Bank of Chicago from 1879 to 1904;

Straying to Chicago

Plymouth and South Congregational Church Members 1864-1974

vol. XXIV #4 Summer 1992

CGS 25th anniversary: highlights 1967-1992

Ancestor File Supplement #4 (H-Z)

vol. XXIV #3 Spring 1992

Memories 1880-1893 by Robert E. Haskin

Ancestor File Supplement #4 (A-H)

vol. XXIV #2 Winter 1991-92

Cover photo: Jacob Wingert’s Flour, Feed and Hay Store, circa 1890

Chicago Political Equality League

Plymouth and South Congregational Church members

Polish Pioneers on Chicago’s southeast side

Campbell Park Presbyterian Church Young People’s Society

vol. XXIV #1 Fall 1991

Excerpts from the Manual of Plymouth Church and Society of Chicago;

History of Avondale Methodist Church

Swenson Research Center and ELCA Synod Archives

A warm and golden day

Chicago in the Illinois State Historical Library

Chicago Fire and the family

vol. XXIII #4 Summer 1991

Cover: map of northern Illinois showing 1825 county boundaries

Early inhabitants of Chicago, 1825-1831

Fourth of July 1900s style

W.A. Haggard undertaker’s records, part 4, 1909-1916

vol. XXIII #3 Spring 1991

Reminiscences of Lake View;

Cemetery at Altenheim

Some Chicagoans who were the oldest living university graduates

vol. XXIII #2 Winter 1990-91

Cover: map of Chicago boundaries in 1840

Reclaiming your ancestors’ ancient titles

Chicago Lawn Historical Society

War memorial in Morton Grove

Morton Grove Historical Society

Lydia Schwartz Bible

Germans of early Chicago: the Lutheran churches



Boundaries of Chicago Wards in 1900

vol. XXIII #1 Fall 1990

Cover photo: club-house of the Union League of Chicago

Chicagoans on the Titanic;

Titanica genealogia

Chicago and Northwestern Railway Passenger Brakemen, Wisconsin Division, 1912-1939

Newspaper report of death and burials of students of Maryville Academy, 1936-1960

vol. XXII #4 Summer 1990

Eistaro Shin : Prairie Avenue’s 1st domestic engineer

Residents of some Chicago hotels in the 1860 census

Cemetery puzzles

Genealogical research in northern Ireland


vol. XXII #3 Spring 1990

Chicago ladies who married noblemen;

Praha Lodge No. 231, I.O.O.F, deceased members 1886-1936

Chronology of nationality colonizations & migrations

Seward and related families

vol. XXII #2 Winter 1989-90

Cover photo: early stages of construction of Navy Pier

Being twice enumerated in the U.S. census

This was Chicago in 1860

Knott family accident

World War I memorial in Oak Park, Illinois

Season brings memories of Christmas tree ship

vol. XXII #1 Fall 1989

Cover photo: cornerstone laying, Diversey Parkway Evangelical Church

Calumet Club, 1900 and 1910;

Some Zander families

Cross index to selected city streets, 1910 census

Extracts from Veterans Census 1890, Chicago;

Genealogy can help in unusual ways

Mostly vital statistics, Deerfield News, 1941

Abstracts from Cemetery Deed Book 1, Bohemian Polish Catholic Cemetery Society

Ivins family Bible records

Pioneers of St Gertrude Parish, Chicago

vol. XXI #4 Summer 1989

First in Lake County, Illinois

Parish histories in the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Archives

World War I newsletter

Chicago Ancestor File Supplement #3 (N-Z)

vol. XXI #3 Spring 1989

Railroad Regiment of Illinois

History of the 89th Brigade

Catholic Archives offer access to historical treasures

Researching a Lincolnshire family

Chicago Ancestor File Supplement #3 (F-N)

vol. XXI #2 Winter 1988-89

Prairie Avenue servants, 1900

Wilson family of early Chicago

Blue Book of Chicago: clubs & societies in 1900

What is a national genealogical conference?

Chicago Ancestor File Supplement #3 (A-F)

vol. XXI #1 Fall 1988

Search for East Chicago

Todten register (Death book) of Evangelical Lutheran Church of St Paul, Austin (Chicago)

Pioneer days of the early west

Location of church & school records for some Catholic parishes in Chicago

Right under my nose

vol. XX #4 Summer 1988

Information relating to the streets of Chicago

Confirmation classes of Evangelical Lutheran Church of St Paul, Austin (Chicago)

Female proprietors of businesses in 1892 Chicago

Chicago to Frisco hikers

Genealogy, the burgeoning avocation

vol. XX #3 Spring 1988

Cover photo: first city plan of Chicago

Braasch, Kluck and Zander families of the Clearing area;

Abstracts From Cemetery Deed Book 1, Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago

Early banking institutions in the City of Chicago

Bible records: Robinson & Conn

vol. XX #2 Winter 1987-88

Bohemians in Chicago, “Chicago Times” Sunday, January 24, 1892;

In search of the Poull family

Lake County Illinois marriage license applications, Spring 1919

Chicago Lawn in the early days

225 year calendar

vol. XX #1 Fall 1987

Cover photo: Chicago stage office of Frink and Walker

Some facts about St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church

Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Illinois: burials of 17 families

Remembrances of 19th century Bridgeport

Chicago Business Directory, 1 September 1871

Notes on German immigration

Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Chicago Lodge Directory 1912-1913

Petition for charter 1913 : four AF&AM lodges

vol. XIX #4 Summer 1987

Marriage registers of various counties in Ontario, 1857-1869

1885-1887, Elsinore News, Elsinore, San Diego County

War memorials and/or historical markers in the Chicago area

vol. XIX #3 Spring 1987

Lake County marriage license applications, Fall 1918;

Letter from England with a letter to England

Welsh Letters – Perspective of Chicago, 1870-1871

Computerized genealogy

vol. XIX #2 Winter 1987

Cover photo: John Bundschuh meat market

Naturalization: an article in the Chicago Tribune, 19 April 1968

Marie’s Letter

More mid-19th century [1920s and 1930s] births in northwest Illinois;

Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois;

Baptismal record of Gethsemane United Church of Christ, part 6

Ancestor File Supplement #2 (A-Z)

Welsh letters

vol. XIX #1 Fall 1986

Illinoisans Who Died in Las Vegas in 1961 and 1965;

Marriage permits in Chicago Feb 14, 1887

Baptismal record of Gethsemane United Church of Christ, part 5;

McCormick Optical College, 1899

Chicago, end of the trail?

vol. XVIII #4 Summer 1986

Vaughn Bible records

Chicago volunteers for the Mexican War

Superstitions against the early censuses

Ancestral File Supplement #1 (O-Z)


vol. XVIII #3 Sprin 1986

Intution is not very scientific but sometimes it works

Baptismal record of Gethsemane United Church of Christ, part 3;

Johann Jakob Koch

Memorials to deceased students and faculty of Notre Dame High School, Niles, Illinois

Some mid 19th century births in northeast Illinois (excluding Chicago)

Ancestor File Supplement #1 (E-N)

Listing of non-train employees of the Wisconsin Division, Chicago and Northwestern Railway serving in

Cook and Lake County locations, 1930’s

vol. XVIII #2 Winter 1986


Earliest German Lutheran Churches in the Chicago area

Fischer family Bible

Ancestor File Supplement #1 (A-E)

James Fairman Cady family Bible

Chicago Examiner January 1-15, 1910 part Two

Grand Army of the Republic, the Austin Post

vol. XVIII #1 Fall 1985

Illinoisans Who Died in Jefferson County Wisconsin, 1930-1948;

Willa Vawter Jackson

Abbie Jemison Pierce

Doane Family Association of America

Talk to me Sam… where did you come from? [Samuel Benson Higenbotham]

John Viall Holland Bible

Baptismal record of Gethsemane United Church of Christ, 1906-1969, part 1;

Almost 100 years ago

Female Patients, Cook County Insane Asylum, Town of Norwood, 1900

Chicago Examiner January 1-15, 1910

Old Monroe Street

vol. XVII #4 Summer 1985

An early Chicago gazetteer

Patients, Cook County Insane Asylum, 1900

Men of 1912

Michigan-Illinois vital statistics, part II

History of St. Joseph’s Carondelet Child Center, 739 East 35th St, Chicago

Some pension data, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, French and Indian Wars, Mexican War

First census records in European countries

Bible recorda: family record of Mason Clem

vol. XVII #3 Spring 1985

Cover photo: raising of Briggs House in 1857

Research in Hesse

United States welcomes the three sisters

Sequel to “A genealogical tip from a letter”

Letter and Duvall family Bible records

Roster of Tents, Illinois Department, National Alliance Daughters of Veterans, USA, 1922

Court of Honor, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893

vol. XVII #2 Winter 1985

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Ruth Flesher Robb

Early Swedes in Chicago

Cracker Jack family of Chicago

More Harvey Ehlers research

Chicago Metro History Fair

Fort Dearborn Muster Roll, 31 May 1812

Chicagoans married in Canada, 1837-1855

Salisbury material, memoranda of journey to Illinois in 1831

A Quaker letter

Bible records: Rev. Soldier John Lanning

Bible records: William DeHaven and Elizabeth Brown

Bible records: Orson Pickens family

vol. XVII #1 Fall 1984

Cover photo: Lake Street retail stores, 1843

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Bernice C. Richard

Early gleanings in Chicago 1871-1873

Late surviving Civil War nurses

That important “letter”

[History of] Streets and Highways of Chicago

vol. XVI #4 Summer 1984

Cover photo: view from the Water Tower, 1874

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Margaret Eleanor Johnson Drake

Birth & baptismal records, 1884-1900, Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul, Austin, Illinois

Robb research adventure

Lurie Index

Early gleanings in Chicago 1871-1873

vol. XVI #3 Spring 1984

Cover photo: Drexel Boulevard, 1882

Early gleanings about Chicago, The German Society, 1854

Hands across the waters

Roster of tents, Illinois Department, National Alliance Daughters of Veterans, USA 1922;

Letters about Hyde Park

Chicago school teachers killed in Iroquois Theatre fire

German Catholic Orphan Asylum: 1880 census, Lakeview Township, Cook County

Bible records: Gray-Wetherbee

Bible records: family of Joshua Wright, Jr.

Early gleanings about Chicago: Chicago “firsts”

Augustana Hospital centennial

Ancestor charts: Hubrich-Kopplin ; Grennan ; Donlan ; Bullman-Day-Stein

Some Illinois-Michigan vital statistics

List of articles about German people in the “Chicago History” magazine, 1945-1983

List of prominent buildings burned in the Chicago Fire, 1871

vol. XVI #2 Winter 1984

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Clarence and Florence Price

Iroquois Theater Fire deaths and injured, 30 December 1903

History of Chicago daily papers

Railroads in operation, January 1, 1878

Chicago Deaths, 1925, from Daily News Almanac

Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery in Ogle County, Illinois

Picture on the wall

vol. XVI #1 Fall 1983

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Sheila Weber Aszling

Church records: Long Grove, Illinois, Lake County

Data specialist can’t be stumped tracing family tree

Board of Education proceedings: September 1873 to September 1884

Early Chicago gleanings

Father builds a house

Gentzel-Homnsen family history

Chicago Maritime Society

Membership of the Luther League: the Covenant Lutheran Church

Research in Pomerania

Belgian genealogy research

German family research addresses and translators

Family research for Americans of Swiss descent

Bible records: Barrickman family

Bible records: Mierendorf family

Youngest soldier in the Union Army

Tallest trees in the forest

vol. XV #4 Summer 1983

Poles in Chicago, part III

List of libraries holding Germanic roots of Chicagoans Harvey Metzger Ehlers & Evelynne Meiborg

Ehrlers;

For sale: a Lincoln landmark

Standard Guide to Chicago, 1891

Mayors of Chicago

“WOP” defined

Metzgers from Dinkelsbuhl, Bavaria

Outstanding Chicago women: Emma Abbott (1850-1891)

Bouwsma four-generation lineage chart

Bible records: Josephine L. Schweitzer

vol. XV #3 Spring 1983

Cover photo: Sheldon residence, 1893, Chicago;

Poles in Chicago, Part II;

Chicago theater;

Importance of homework;

Bethlehem Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church of Berwyn;

German research;

Duke Bible records;

St. Mary’s Sisters of Mercy 1850;

Genealogy of a bank;

Early Chicago gleanings 1844 ;

Michigan marriage licenses 1894-95 from the “Adrian Daily Times and Expositer” [people who claimed

Chicago or Illinois as their home];

Outstanding Chicago women: Mrs Potter Palmer (1851-1918);

Outstanding Chicago women: Frances Elizabeth Willard (1839-1898);

Chicagoans on the banks of the Zanja: the story of Redlands;

An immigrant in the family;

Chicago Daily News Almanac and Yearbook for 1919;

Horse-railroads in Chicago

vol. XV #2 Winter 1982/83

Vital statistics from “The Inland Printer”, 1883-1888

Wolf’s Point, Chicago

Land records

Treasury of birth records [Northwestern Memorial Hospital Archives]

Poles in Chicago, part I

Mrs. Myra Bradwell

Ship’s passenger lists [arrived NY January 1840 and July 1841]

Chicago and Northwestern Historical Society

List of German translators

vol XV #1 Fall 1982

Cover photo: Art Palace, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893

To be or not to be… a teacher of genealogy

German-born Chicago businessmen from 1905 “Book of Chicagoans”, part 1

My Civil War soldier relative

Records of Chicago Central High School 1859-1880

Snyder photo album

Some map uses in genealogical research

Did your Chicago ancestors own their house?

More German material

From a little letter grew

Bible records: Dr. Danforth Chamberlain

Bible records: Joshua Wright, Jr. family

vol. XIV #4

Cover photo: Wolf Point, 1835

Chicago Germans, part II

Polish research & CGS

1860 census of Cook County, Illinois South Chicago Twp, Chicago Post Office Chicago officials, 1844;

Ancestors of Arne Arnesen and Karoline Paulsen

Descendants of Arne and Karoline (Paulsdatter) Arnesen (who settled just outside Chicago);

1893 World’s Fair visit

Bible records: Walter Harbin family

Bible records: William Price family

On to Chicago

German-Russian Society

vol. XIV #3 Spring 1982

Cover photo: Transportation Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893

Classroom copying

A sketch of the Arnesen family’s early history in Chicago

Bible records: Wilson family

Illinois vital records

Chicago nurses 1864-65

Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home indexed

Biographical and industry file at Newberry Library

A genealogical tip from a letter


Churches and their pastors

Chicago Ancestor File

Pedigree chart: Evelynne M. Ehlers

Pedigree chart: Harvey M. Ehlers

vol. XIV #2 Winter 1981-82

Cover photo: Fisheries Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893

Hibernian research

Cook County Poor House

Chicago landmarks information

Charlotte Snyder’s early Chicago Family

Continuation of the Chicago Police Department, year of 1859-1860

Chicago Municipal Reference Library

Business and professional directory, City of Chicago, 1844

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)

Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Ehlers’ German roots

How a family history book is born

Depression days in Chicago

Bible records: Daniel Crane family Bible

Growing up Dutch in Chicago

vol. XIV #1 Fall 1981

Cover photo: Administration Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893

Excerpts from Carl Mostrom’s diary

Genealogical education

Chicago Police Department year of 1859-1860


Chicago Historical Society Library

History of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Chicago (book review)

Locating the village of origin for an immigrant ancestor

vol. XIII #4 Summer 1981

Cover photo:

Chicago miscellany from the 1860 census: various hotels;

Bible records: Wright, Rees, Hinners, Hull-Chesnutt, Vasey-Powers;

1860 census, residents of Poor House, Jefferson Twp, Cook County;

1900 census of blacks in Evanston, Illinois, ward 1, Cook County;

Genealogist’s disease: no known cure

vol. XIII #3 Spring 1981

1900 census, Arlington Heights Village, Wheeling Twp, Cook County: residents of the Lutheran Old

People’s Home;

Thom family letters, part 3;

Nachusa Cemetery, Lee County, Illinois;

Genealogical seminars: a personal experience;

Chicago miscellany from the 1860 census: hotels, and Home of the Friendless;

Catholic cemeteries of the Chicago area Archdiocese of Chicago;


vol. XIII #2 Winter 1980-81

Cover photo: Prairie Avenue;

Evanston, Illinois, part IV: 1850 census of Evanston (formerly Grosse Point and Ridgeville);

Thom Family Letters, part 2;

Chicago miscellany from the 1860 census: Matteson House, Gage’s Hotel, Doty House, Stanwix Hall,

Uhlicks Hotel;

Chicago Community Names;

Our cemetery adventure in Detroit;

Lots sold in Fort Dearborn Addition to the town of Chicago, 1837;

Duckwall Hoerig family Bible records

vol. XIII #1 Fall 1980

Cover photo: residence of Archibald Clybourne;

Names appearing in Abstract of Title for Wakeman’s subdivision, Cook County, 1835-1919;

Evanston, Illinois, part III: personal memories of Ridgeville Township;

Stettinius family genealogy;

Peoria County personal property assessment for 1825;

Thom family letters;

Cemeteries of Lake County Illinois

vol. XII #4 Summer 1980

Genealogical records and mail research policy of the Illinois State Archives;

Biography of artist Burt Barnes;

Directory for the Village of Wilmette Illinois, 1904: S-Z;

Rose family Bible records;


vol. XII #3 Spring 1980

Early Chicago settlers: Stephen J. Scott;

Chicago marriages recorded in Fulton County;

Chicago marriages recorded in Peoria County;

Name index to early Illinois records at the Illinois State Archives;

Evanston, Illinois, part I: early Evanston;

Evanston, Illinois, part II: biographies of early Evanston residents;

Directory for the Village of Wilmette Illinois, 1904: L-R;

Forbes family Bible records

vol. XII #2 Winter 1979-80

Roots in France and Spain;

Federal census: “Noyesville,” Proviso Twp, Cook County;

Wills and probate records in Cook County;

Chicago miscellany from the 1860 census: Sisters of Mercy, teachers, people in the county jail and

orphan asylum and at the Tremont House Hotel;

Partial list of hereditary and patriotic organizations;

Directory for the Village of Wilmette Illinois, 1904 : E-K

vol. XII #1 Fall 1979

Organized Illinois local genealogical societies;

Extracts from 1911 Whiting City Indiana Almanac;

Baccalaureate alumni of the University of Illinois for the City of Chicago Q-Z;

Directory for the Village of Wilmette Illinois, 1904: A-D

vol. XI #4 Summer 1979

Cover photo: residence of Potter Palmer;

Chicago obituaries in “Der Christliche Botschafter” 1844-1871;

Baccalaureate alumni of the University of Illinois for the City of Chicago I-P;

Chicago cemetery research;

Application for verification of birth, grades, or scores based on elementary school records of the Chicago

Public Schools;


vol. XI #3 Spring 1979

Cover photo: Chicago’s first school house;

Skeleton keys;

Some early Irish residents of Chicago’s west side;

Chicago ward boundaries;

Irish emigration of 1846 onwards

vol. XI #2 Winter 1978-79

Interview with an 87-year-old Chicago settler: Mrs. Hulda Lewis;

Baccalaureate alumni of the University of Illinois for the City of Chicago A-H;

Organizing a successful genealogical workshop;

Researched at the Newberry Library: Mutchler family in Pennsylvania and New Jersey;

Ancestral chart: Eilrich;

Gage Park and the man for whom it was named: George W. Gage;

Roman Catholic registers of the Liverpool England Diocese;

Lewis family Bible records;

Lewis ancestor chart

vol. XI #1 Fall 1978

Incorporated municipalities of Illinois in the Chicago area: Lake County, Peoria County;

What’s in a surname;

National Woman’s Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic;

Searching German Lutheran churches in Chicago, 1865-1900 period;

Ancestral chart: Albert Hyland Tresselt;

Genealogy and history;

First 87 burials at Mt. Olive Cemetery, Jefferson Township, Cook County;

Cook County naturalization records;

Berry family Bible;

vol. X #4 Summer 1978

Order of the Society of Founders and patriots of America;

Baccalaureate alumni of the University of Illinois: class of 1876;

Incorporated municipalities of Illinois 1833-1960: Champaign County, Kane County, Kankakee County;

Ancestry of James Way;

Caddick family of England and Chicago;

Bible record of Cox family;

Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery inscriptions, Des Plaines;


vol. X #3 Spring 1978

Autobiography of Lewis Lawrence (“Dick”) Powell;

Hitting the genealogical jackpot;

Society of Colonial Wars;

Some baptisms and burials in County Louth, Ireland;

Chicago city officers, 1850;

Diagram of Cook County, 1850:

Understanding the French Republican calendar;

Incorporated municipalities of Illinois: Jun 9, 1873 to Apr 26, 1960;

Cook County delegates, 1847;


Bible records: Beasley and Brownfield

vol. X #2 Winter 1978

Aids for locating your immigrant ancestor;

Incorporated municipalities in the Chicago area prior to August 15, 1872;

Who’s who in CGS: Bea Jenkins;

Sons of the American Revolution;

Let the imagination run wild : fun with genealogy;


Family tree of the Leards;

Bible record: Riffle-Herrick family;

Ward boundaries in 1869;

Ward boundaries in 1876;

David Walsh, 1815-1899;

Communities of Chicago up to 1950: Washington Park

Continuation of Rosma Limbeck’s chart;

Ancient Waddington ancestry;

Property problems in early Chicago

vol. X #1 Fall 1977

Who’s who in CGS: Ruth & Bill Robb;

Discovering Mayflower descendants “lost” in Nova Scotia;

List of advertisers in the “Chicago Daily Democrat”, October 2, 1850;

City of Chicago, seat of Cook County;

Supervisors of Cook County 1850;

Sons of Revolution;

Baccalaureate alumni of the University of Illinois: classes of 1872 and 1873;

Ancestral chart of Rosma Rathbun Limbeck;

Bible records: Brown-Starr and Butterfield-Pearce;

Donaldson Bible

vol. IX #4 Summer 1977

Frisian forebears on this side of the pond (part four);

English research;

King, Thompson, Mills family of Virginia and Missouri;

Orphans court records, Cook County (continued) 1895;

Sons of the Union veterans of the Civil War;

Huguenot ancestors;

Friedrich Schalow and Emilie (Strubel) Schalow, a short sketch and facts;

Logan Square, a brief history;

Brown Bible records;

David M. Jones Bible;

From a Bible, owner unknown (Diamond family);

Riddler, Strubler, Sanderson, Collins Bible transcriptions;

Archibald Conn’s family records;


vol. IX #3 Spring 1977

Cover drawing: Dearborn Street drawbridge built in 1834;

Genealogy and the law (second of a series);

Some finding aids in the British National Archives;

1860 census, New Trier Township, Cook County (continued);

Finding Frisian forebears across the pond (part three);

Orphans court records, Cook County (continued) 1891-1894;

Military Order of the Loyal Legion;

History of Eden family in Chicago;

Techny burial permits;

Black genealogy;

Bible records: Elisha Raymond;

List of pupils in Miss Georgia Smith’s classes in 1853-54

vol. IX #2 Winter 1976

English research;

1860 census, New Trier Township, Cook County (continued);

Finding Frisian forebears across the pond (part two);

Orphans court records, Cook County (continued) 1890-1891;

Chicago city directories on microfilm at the Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago;

General Society of 1812;

Thought dead 34 years, alive: John Wilson, Mrs. Ellen Wilson, O. Wilson;

How to find a Quaker forebear;

Interest in genealogy leads to better health;

Lombard Historical Society, and Palatine Historical Society;

Ancestral five-generation chart: Dr. Robert John Tharp;

Climbing out of the family tree (Beaudoin);

Immigration German style;

Chicagoans wed at St. Joseph, Michigan, in 1905

vol. IX #1 Fall 1976

Genealogy and the law: problems and sources;

Immigration Irish style;

English genealogy (first of a series);

Society of the Cincinnati;

Finding Frisian forebearers across the pond or a baffling mystery solved;

Kite Bible records;

1860 census, New Trier Township, Cook County

vol. VIII #4 Summer 1976

Cover photo: Snell Toll Gate House in 1879;

Weinrich family of Chicago;

People listed as dead in the 1850 census of Chicago;

Bible records: King, Shook;


vol. VIII #3 Spring 1976

Cover photo: Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul

Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul, history and marriage register;

1876 prophecy of Chicago on the 4th of July 1976;

Elder family record;

Bible records: Battershell, Hart;

1860 federal census for Dunton (later Arlington Heights), G-Z

vol. VIII #2 Winter 1976

Cover photo: Glos Mansion, Elmhurst;

Chicago’s plank roads;

Arlington Heights (once called Dunton), Wheeling Township: brief biographies of early residents;

1860 federal census for Dunton (later Arlington Heights), A-G;

1839 directory of the City of Chicago, P-Z;

Humor from the past, abstracted from Chicago Daily Journal, 1847;

Johnston family Bible

vol. VIII #1 Fall 1975

Cover photo: Newberry Library;

Amendment of Illinois Vital Records Act;

Tools and techniques at the Newberry Library;

1839 directory of the City of Chicago, A-P;

Bible records: Robson

vol. VII #4 Summer 1975

Cover photo: Stacey’s Tavern in Glen Ellyn before 1900;

Chicago Ancestor File;

Chicago first city cemetery;

Illinois Church Records Card-file project: Instructions for collating church records;

Obituary (a list from before 1900), G-Z;

Ancestral charts: Harper;

Research in New Brunswick

vol. VII #3 Spring 1975

Cover photo: Brockway Street, Palatine Illinois 1900-1910;

Letters to the West from a Chicago pioneer, Elizabeth Lupton Pardee;

Probate records: a genealogical goldmine;

Safety deposit box certificate vital statistics: safety deposit boxes rented during 1889;

Obituary (a list from before 1900), A-G;

Bible records: Oxley-Whetstone, Pardee;

1904 directory of the Village of Winnetka, P-Z;

Ancestral charts: Bigelow, Brewer, Wyse;

Historical societies in the Chicago area

vol. VII #1 Fall 1974

Cover photo: Chicago October 10, 1871;

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Bernice Richard;

Glenview area burial places, Northfield Township

St John’s Lutheran Church cemetery, Northfield Township;

Illinois church records card-file project;

Manual of the First Presbyterian Church of Hyde Park, 1873;

1904 directory of the Village of Winnetka, A-E;

Teem’s Bible records;

Ancestral charts: Albert, Bishop

vol. VII #2 Winter 1975

Cover photo: cowpath in Chicago’s Loop;

Forest Park pioneers;

Calumet Club;

Morley family memorabilia including Morley Bible records;

1904 directory of the Village of Winnetka, E-P

vol. VI #4 Summer 1974

Cover photo: Archimedes ship;

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: June B. Barekman;

Pupils admitted to Chicago High, July 3, 1867;

Big Woods Congregational Church cemetery, Naperville Township;

You think your newspapers pile up? Well, take a look at this place!: American Antiquarian Society;

Contents of the twelfth census (1900) of the United States;

Ancestral charts: Tenge, Royer, Hogan

vol. VI #3 Spring 1974

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Ron Schelkopf;

Inhabitants of Chicago, 1825-1831;

Wills filed 1850-1915, Cook County, W-Z;

Bible records of Henry L. Walker;

Ancestral charts: Mutter, McClaughry, Fowler, Martin, Lee, Eilers

vol. VI #2 Winter 1973-74

Cover photo: raising the grade on Clark Street in 1857;

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Elsie R. Swartz;

Men who have made the fifth ward;

Early Chicago marriages between 1825-1830;

History of medical practice in Illinois, vol. I preceeding 1850;

Gridley family cemetery;

From the Schermer genealogy;

Du Page County, Illinois, and its pioneers before 1840;

Wesley Rollen Lindsay;

Steen family Bible records;

Wills filed 18550-1915 Cook County, T-V;

Ancestral charts: Pagel

vol. VI #1 Fall 1973

Cover photo: first house built in Chicago in 1784;

Who’s who in the Chicago Genealogical Society: Evelyn Tuttle Rickie;

Searching for your ancestors in the Netherlands;

German script;

Deerfield Illinois in Lake County;

Wills filed 1850-1915, Cook County, R-S;

Bible records of Ezekiel Lane and Talitha Guest Lane;

Ancestral charts: Clark, Langdon

vol. V #4 Summer 1973

Fun in the family tree;

Facts of Chicago and suburban towns;

Military addresses in England, Ireland, and Scotland;

Methodist records in Manchester, England;

Ministerial deaths, United Methodist Church, Northern Illinois Conference;

Mayflower descendants of George Soule;

Wills filed 1850-1915, Cook County, O-Q;

Ancestral charts: Johnson; Knigge

vol. V #3 Spring 1973

Cover photo: Sherman House;

Kiolbassa family of Illinois and Texas;

City of Chicago ward boundaries in 1890;

Suggestions in tracing your English ancestor from England to America through Newberry Library sources;

Wills filed 1850-1915 Cook County, M-N;

Synopsis of the life of Mrs Phil Sheridan, Tent No. 4, Daughters of Veterans;

Ancestral charts: Oxley, Sherman, Barekman

From the Schermer genealogy;

Norwegian Old Settlers Society in Chicago;

Some passenger lists and where to find them

vol. V #2 Winter 1972-73

Cover photo: Chicago water works;

Curious history of the Macarty family of Louisiana;

Cook County items from the 1850s;

List of some officers of the regular army at Vandalia, Illinois, March 4, 1830;

Kandy-Stewart Bible records;

Welden-Thrift Bible records;

1904 directory for the Village of Glencoe, M-Z;

Wills filed 1850-1915, H-L;

Ancestral charts: Simmons, Parkhurst, Walker

vol. V #1 Fall 1972

Roster of military commandants at the “Poste des Illinois”;

Wills filed 1850-1915 Cook County, A-H;

Fay-Milner genealogy, England to Illinois;

100 basic American research aids;

1904 directory for the Village of Glencoe, K-M

vol. IV #4 Summer 1972

Early Chicago families: Lunholm, Ekvall, Johnston, Stephens, Wiggins;

1904 directory for the Village of Glencoe, F-K;

Revolutionary soldiers and widows who lived in Illinois, H-Z;

Riffle family Bible record

vol. IV #3 Spring 1972

Chiago Genealogical Society’s surname exchange, 1972;

Roster of Revolutionary War soldiers and widows who lived in Illinois, A-H;

1904 directory for the Village of Glencoe, part II, D-F;

Mayors of the City of Chicago

vol. IV #2 Winter 1971

Stockyard gate to be landmark;

Using National Archives materials;

Barekman-Barkman Bible records;

Genealogical gleanings from English parish records;

Directory for the Village of Glencoe, 1904, A-D;

John Jones, first prominent negro of Chicago;

Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, part VI, J-M

vol. 4 #1 Fall 1971

Heraldry and coats of arms;

Draheim family record;

Voters in the first city election of Chicago, 2 May 1837, A-Z;

Agencies involved in German genealogical research;

Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, part V, H-J


Cover photo: McVicker’s Theater;

History of Englewood;

Old settlers of Englewood;

Brief history of DuPage County;

1840 census of DuPage County;

1904 directory of Kenilworth, A-Z;

List of settlers of Chicago who came between 1831 and 1836, part IV, M-Z;

Greeley Bible record;

Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, part IV, F-H


Chicago Fire centennial medal;

Ravenswood and northwest Chicago;

Hint for copying tombstone inscriptions;

Calkins family record;

Early history of Blue Island;

Some suggestions for genealogical research;

1840 census of Lake County, Illinois;

List of settlers of Chicago who came between 1831 and 1836, part III, F-M;

Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, part III, C-F


Cover photo: Seth Warner mansion;

Heraldry;

Austin;

Austin old settlers, A-C;

Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, part II;

Joseph Wesley Bible;

Barlow Bible record;

List of settlers of Chicago who came between 1831 and 1836, part II, D-F;

Town of Pullman;

Cards from Chicago newspapers;

Four old New York wills of interest: Joseph Halstead, Daniel Youngs, Elijah Wheeler, Mercy Cooper

vol. 3 #1 Fall 1970

Tools and technique of genealogical research;

List of settlers of Chicago who came between 1831 and 1836, part I, A-D;

Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, part I;

Chicago Fire;

Chicago biographies, part V, N-Y;

Cook County orphan court records for 1889;

What’s in a date

vol. II #4 Summer 1970

Cover photo: Crosby’s Opera House;

Unnamed Lake County cemetery;

List of cemeteries in Cook County, part II;

Mooseheart Senior Class book of 1919;

Family record of Bartlet Wilson of Douglas County, Missouri;

Chicago biographies, part IV;

1887 Oak Park directory, part V, H-Z ;

Sale bill from Elihu Lane’s estate;

Index to the 1840 federal census of Cook County, part IV

vol. II #3 Spring 1970

Description of Norwegian emigrants;

Parallel events in the lies of the Bristol brothers;

Millesont Orcutt’s autograph book;

Burr Bible record;

Newton sampler;

Orphan court records of Cook County, 1883-1888;

Illinois, the sucker state;

List of cemeteries in Cook County, part I;

Chicago biographies, part III;

Index to the 1840 federal census of Cook County, part III;

1887 Oak Park directory, part IV, K-M;

Ancestor tables: Springer, Thomas, Lane

vol. II #2 December 1969

Descendants of Reuben Raxford and Avis Fittock;

Bible record of William Cooke and Elizabeth Young;

Index to the 1860 federal census of Cook County;

Chicago biographies (continued);

Graceland Cemetery;

1825 Cook County tax list;

Cook County voters, August 7, 1826;

1830 Cook County voters;

Cook County post offices established prior to 1850;

1887 Oak Park directory, part III, H-J

vol. II #1 September 1969

Winnetka’s centennial;

List of letters remaining at the post office at Chicago Jan 1, 1834;

List of letters remaining at the post office at Hennepin Jan 1, 1834;

St. Peter’s Cemetery, Elmhurst, Illinois;

Early orphan records of Cook County, Illinois 1873-1881;

Index to the 1840 federal census of Cook County;

Fort Dearborn deserters, 1836;

Chicago biographies;

1887 Oak Park directory, part II, C-H

vol. I #2 June 1969

1839 Chicago business directory;

Roos and Burtar families in Chicago;

1812 soldiers buried in Cook County;

Cook County Blackhawk War muster rolls;

Hahn Bible records;

Hains Bible records;

Chicago Title and Trust Company;

Origin of Chicago’s name;

Chicago population statistics;

Pedigree charts;

Map of Oak Park;

1887 Oak Park directory, part I, A-C

vol. I #1 March 1969

Early history of Chicago;

Barickman and Goodyear Bible records;

New Illinois and county histories

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